Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Rea, J. H. August 26, 1831 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      J H Rea, farmer and stock grower, P O Carmichaels, was 
born in Cumberland Township, August 26, 1831, and is a son 
of John Rea and Margaret Dowlin Rea, who were of Scotch 
Irish descent. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania, and 
his father, who was a blacksmith, was born in New Jersey and 
came to Greene Count in 1803 and died November 25, 1847. Of 
their ten children, nine grew to maturity, the youngest of 
whom is the subject of this sketch. He has lived all his 
life of a farm with the exception of two years spent in the 
army. He owns the farm of 106 acres where he now resides.
  
      He was united in marriage August 26, 1852, with Miss 
Orpha Worthington, daughter of Benjamin Worthington and Mary 
Long Worthington. Mrs Rea is of English origin. Their family 
consists of seven children: Calvin B Rea; Margaret Alice 
Rea, wife of James Craig; Frank L Rea, a stock dealer in the 
West; Mary M Rea; Walter G Rea; Anna V Rea; and John Linn 
Rea. They are all members of the Presbyterian Church in 
which Mr Rea has been elder, trustee, and superintendent of 
the Sabbath school. Mr Rea takes a great interest in 
educational matters, has served as school director, and 
filled most of the important offices of his township. 
  
      In 1861 he enlisted as a private in Company F, First 
Pennsylvania Cavalry. At the regular organization of this 
company at Harrisburg, Penna, August 17, 1861, he was 
elected Captain, and was promoted to the office of Major, 
November 14, of the same year. He was discharged for 
disability, January 12, 1863, and was carried home on a 
stretcher, in what was then thought to be a dying condition. 
He is a member of the G A R Post.

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